Recent content by Libris

The M-Drive would be very impressive in atmospheric combat as it effectively would supply thrust until impact whereas most interceptor type missiles have fairly short rocket motor burn times. An AMRAAM motor has around 8 seconds of burn time to Mach 4 and then coasts the rest of the way with...

I would agree on the main points about specific missile armament. Ship missiles would be usable as is but as I said they’re not optimised for it. If you were going to be fighting below low orbit and in atmosphere and you’re planning on hitting something that’s manoeuvring hard you’d equip your...

Yep, no argument here. Though it does seem to be down to the confusion that a dTon is the same as a tonne. As somebody pointed out that’s about the weight of a Hellfire. There’s also the AA-8 Aphid air-to-air missile - only 45kg and extremely manoeuvrable but pretty short ranged. Given the...

If we take the Striker’s example of 500kg per cubic meter then a space missile at 1/20 of a dTon comes in at around 360kg each which seems a bit more realistic. A Sidewinder is around 85kg, an AMRAAM about 160kg, and an AGM-88 HARM (which looks like a super buff AMRAAM) is around 360kg...

It’s not difficult to design them using the existing rules it’s just that they don’t mirror real world examples. Small basic box trailers, for example, are significantly costlier than a hut, secondary propulsion takes up a chunk of space and implies they are powered - the running gear for a...

I get that. Just venting really. I’m not done with Traveller… but I am done with posting when I’m on my second bottle of wine 🤣 I just like consistency and to be fair Geir’s vehicle system is excellent and the mere fact that you can design a structure that can be a container and it actually...

I think I’m done with Traveller. I bought it just after it came out but to be honest it’s never been a unified system, or code, more like a guideline…

In this case it’s both - dTons and weight. An 8 space structure actually holds 16 spaces of cargo - 4 dTons and as per Page 27 Step 12 250kg of cargo per space or 4,000 kg. It’s shipping size is 4dTons. I’d say the 4,000kg is a nominal load where you can easily access what you’re looking for...

Starship containers always seemed ridiculously expensive if designed using High Guard - given that they were a utilitarian power box. A vehicle handbook designed container (to me) is much more reasonable. It’s basically just an 8 space structure with vacuum protection, grid power and a...

Well a bit about trains but really more a description of infrastructure. Details on transport infrastructure could be a book on its own. With supersonic cars quite practical feasible at high TL it would require a fairly specialised highway construction to allow for them. Suffice to say that...

We do seem to be getting tied in knots and in somewhat of a tizz over the issue of spaces - which I understand, different strokes for different folks and all that. The explanation of spaces on p25 has definitely proven… problematic. The first paragraph starts off perfectly, describing a space...

True. I was trying to illustrate the counter intuitive notion of ending up with more useable space than you started with without changing the outside size. The Speed Modifications are understandably quite punitive in terms of space use especially for smaller vehicles and are really only...

Apologies if this comes across like mansplaning but I’m trying to get my head around it as well. Based on page 25 there are theoretically 4 spaces per dTon and this looks to have confused the crap out of everyone - me included. I have come to the realisation that the actual number doesn’t...

The “explanation” on page 25 is not really that helpful. A much less specific description would simply state that vehicles are actually bigger than the useful spaces due to engines, fuel, transmission, ground clearance, and a myriad of other design requirements. It would have been much easier...

With rules as written nothing inside the blast radius survives implying that the damage is uniform across the volume - this seems more like a disintegrator - and I’m sure a meson gun is on the path to that but it’s not there yet. Is there wreckage, bodies, pile of constituent atoms, nothing...